Current funded projects
- ExU:AI Models for Examining Multilingual Disinformation Narratives and Understanding their Spread, EMIF, 2023 - 2025, as PI
- VIGILANT: Vital IntelliGence to Investigate ILlegAl DisiNformaTion, Horizon Europe, 2022 - 2025, as Scientific Coordinator and Sheffield PI
- EDMO Ireland, EC, 2021 - 2023, as Sheffield PI
- vera.ai: VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence, Horizon Europe, 2022 - 2025, as Co-PI
- Modeling Idiomaticity in Human and Artificial Language Processing (MIA), EPSRC, 2020 - 2024, as Co-PI
Staff
- Jake Vasilakes, ExU Research Assistant
- Ahmad Zareie, VIGILANT Research Assistant
- Olesya Razuvayevskaya, vera.ai Research Assistant
- Wei He, MIA Research Assistant
- Yue Li, ExU Research Assistant
- Ibrahim Abu Farha, VIGILANT Research Assistant
- Iknoor Singh, vera.ai Research Assistant
PhD students
- Andrey Tagarev (co-supervised with Kalina Bontcheva)
- João Augusto Leite (co-supervised with Kalina Bontcheva)
- Freddy Heppell (co-supervised with Kalina Bontcheva)
- Tom Pickard (co-supervised with Aline Villavicencio)
- Yue Li (co-supervised with Kalina Bontcheva)
- Tomas Goldsack (co-supervised with Chenghua Lin)
- Edward Gow-Smith (co-supervised with Aline Villavicencio)
Visitors
- Diego Alysson Braga Moreira (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
Past projects and more
Past funded projects
- XAIvsDisinfo: eXplainable AI Methods for Categorisation and Analysis of COVID- 19 Vaccine Disinformation and Online Debates, ESPRC / UKRI, 2021 - 2022, as Co-PI
Former PhD students
- Iknoor Singh (now an RA at the University of Sheffield)
- Sebastian T. Vincent (now an AI Research Scientist at ZOO Digital)
- Fernando Alva (now a Lecturer at Cardiff University)
Former interns and vistors
- Letícia Bossatto Marchezi (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
- Matheus Vargas Volpon Berto (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
- Fernanda Malheiros Assi (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
- Freddy Heppell
- Diego Silva (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
- João Augusto Leite (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
- Roney Lira de Sales Santos (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
- Gabriela Wick Pedro (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
- Iknoor Singh (Panjab University)
- Yue Li